10 Things You Probably Don't Know About Me.

This week's blog is coming in months too late. Sorry for that, kids. If there are any readers out there let me introduce myself a little more thoroughly in ten things you probably don't know about me.

1. I have four tattoos. Okay so I know that this little fun fact is sort of generic and a lot of people talk about their ink and how their meaningful to them in their own way but come on, it's only the first fun fact. I'll try and get a little deeper as they go on. My first tattoo I got when I was 18 and I got the outline of an apple. Sounds lame right? Well I am in the process of finishing my studies in education in hopes of becoming a teacher in the next few months and so I got the outline of an apple to represent teaching and the value of education. My plan was to get it coloured in when I graduate and I'm just not sure that I want to do that just yet. My second tattoo was inked a year after my first and I got the roman numerals for 3. I'm third born and am extremely close with my brothers so we each got the numeral for the order that we were born. How cute are we? The third tattoo took place maybe a year and a half after that and it's the German word 'fernweh' since my Dad's side is German and it means the craving for travel and places you've never seen before. What can I say? I'm a sucker for travelling. The fourth tattoo I have took place last summer and it is a tiny b. for, you guessed it, my best friend, Bronte. We got them when we knew that she was leaving for BC (to go and shack up with my brother). Okay on to the next fun fact.

2. I drink tea non stop. So interesting right?! No, I only like green tea or red rose with milk. None of this blueberry, fruity bullshit. MAYBE chai...MAYBE.

3. I absolutely hate when people don't say thank you after you have held the door for them. I'm one of those people that genuinely look behind them to see if anyone is there coming through the door to hold it for them, or I open it and hold it as someone is coming towards me. Common courtesy right? Well it is also common courtesy to say thank you after someone has held it for you. You'd be surprised at how many people don't say thank you. I say you're welcome anyway just so that they feel uncomfortable. #oops.

4. I have been to 14 countries and there has been either an injury or a tragic incident in every one of them.

-Africa: cut my knee open for lack of upper body strength on the side of a pool while climbing out, chummed up the ocean and saw a shark later that day.

-Spain: ate some spicy mushrooms and lips looked like Kylie Jenner's. Hurt like hell. For 2 days.

-Hungary: I got more cash out and panicked when the machine spit out the currency for Hungary...I thought I had withdrawn thousands for a minute there and definitely cried because I thought I drained my bank account. Idiot.

-England: got lost and couldn't find my hotel for 3 hours after spending the entire day out and about London. Asked some random guy who walked me to it and in 3 minutes, I was back. I guess you could say that I am directionally challenged.

-Germany: bought some new Birkenstocks, wore them, got the worst blisters. Enough said. Oh and I still had half of my trip left so wandering Europe with GIANT blisters was not my finest moment.

-Austria: woke up at the exact time we were supposed to be leaving the hotel to the next country and basically ran around throwing stuff into my suitcase. Ran with everything through the breakfast hallway and grabbed some fruit and bread and ended up dry shampooing my hair on the bus awkwardly, trying to be quiet while everyone else was sleeping.

-Netherlands: found myself at one of those sex shows with the rest of my tour group but I only went because I was scared to walk around the red light district for a couple hours since I was the only one that didn't want to go. The tragedy here was that I saw things I never wanted to see and I paid frigging 50 euros, oh and I was sitting front row...*shudders*.

-Czech Republic: ate waaaayy too much on a shopping trip and felt so gross I could barely walk. Stumbled into a few people displaying their art on the streets and knocked a few things over. Needless to say they weren't too happy with me.

-Belgium: was late to the bus simply because I wanted to buy a waffle. I ran and inhaled that waffle during my sprint and had a stomach ache after (majority of my run-ins have to do with food it seems).

-Italy: came down with really bad ear infections as per usual, almost got mugged while getting over the counter meds from a pharmacy.

-France: suitcase broke, left little pieces of it's wheels along the cobblestone streets and had to buy a new one.

-El Salvador: the first time I broke my brother's suitcase and hit my head off of the bus so slight concussion there, second time I broke the suitcase I had to buy in France.

-BC, Canada: fell down a really muddy hill in white shoes, jeans and a sweater during one of my low blood sugar delusional moments. This also happened in NFLD, QC and constantly in ON. Now I always carry old lady candies in my purse..gotta keep those sugar levels up!

-Virginia, USA: wore a life jacket with the strap between my legs, got reeeeaaaallllllyyyy bad rash on my inner thighs and thought that it was the end. I mean I was 4 but the other places in the US I've visited didn't have as many tragic accidents as that one, except for the time my flight was delayed and my Mum forgot to call my grandparents to tell them I had finally landed in Florida so I roamed the airport for hours crying wondering how I was going to get hold of them. I guess NYC and Chicago didn't have that many shamble-like experiences.

5. I live for avocados.

6. I grew up with my Dad being a massive musical influence on me. I'm talking 60s, 70s, etc.

7. I absolutely love movies. I can quote all of those silly ones from when we were kids that had Hilary Duff and Amanda Bynes and whatever else you've got. Bring it. I dare you.

8. One time I was stabbed in the hand by some idiot that was trying to pry apart frozen burgers and then a week later by some glass in a garbage can.

9. ^^ The idiot was me.

10. My favourite app is Instagram and I sometimes make myself go crazy thinking about captions because, let's face it, I'm hilarious.

There you have it, kids. Do you feel like you know me a little better now? No? Contact me if you have some questions!

-E